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Day Quotes by John Donne
- There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle,…
- Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible;…
- Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our…
- Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie…
- 'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
- Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun…
- All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a…
- God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their…
- Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
- Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last,…
- The day breaks not, it is my heart.
- A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.…
- God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
- A bracelet of bright hair about the bone, Will he not let us alone, And think that there a loving couple lies Who thought that…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong